Next Best Picture

For this week’s main podcast review, Ema Sasic, Will Mavity, and guest Ben Langford join me to discuss the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos, “Bugonia,” starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. With a screenplay by Will Tracy, the film...

“Hallow Road” a psychological thriller film directed by Babak Anvari and written by William Gillies. It stars Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys as a couple who receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter (Megan McDonnell) after she accidentally...

“Hedda” is a dramatic adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” written and directed by Nia DaCosta, starring Tessa Thompson in the title role, with Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss in supporting roles. The film premiered at...

With the recent release of “Frankenstein” and the arrival of Halloween, the Next Best Picture team decided to revisit director Guillermo del Toro’s 2015 gothic romance film “Crimson Peak,” starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam & Jim...

THE STORY – A new bride investigates ghostly visions at a remote gothic mansion that holds dark secrets. THE CAST – Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam & Jim Beaver THE TEAM – Guillermo del Toro (Director/Writer) & Matthew...

“Bugonia” is an absurdist black comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Will Tracy that adapts the 2003 South Korean film “Save the Green Planet!” by Jang Joon-hwan. The film follows two young men who kidnap a...

In some years, the Best Original Song category feels like a creative desert, thin on memorable tunes or cultural impact. That is not the case for the 98th Academy Awards. The 2025 film year has delivered two pop culture juggernauts,...

There’s a black hole in the leaky bedroom ceiling of Linda (Rose Byrne)’s home. Linda, a mom and therapist whose daughter (Delaney Quinn) is suffering from a mysterious illness, tries to keep her head above water. She tries to escape...

Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for the latest entry in the “Scream” franchise, “Scream 7,” directed and co-written by franchise creator Kevin Williamson starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Anna Camp, Joel McHale,...

THE STORY – Three people, once the best of friends and artistic collaborators, are now in various stages of disappointment and burnout. But their story is told in reverse ­­— each subsequent scene rolls back the years to more hopeful times,...